Rebirth of Bayi Fishing and Hunting in the Northwest

In Xiaobaiyanggou, after a year of growth, the willows, shrubs and other long trees that had been almost cut bare by the villagers have become lush again, even more vigorous than before.

So when the jeep stopped and Li Jianguo and Lu Yingming got out, they looked at the police nearby with smiles on their faces.

They unloaded their things and placed them next to the original dugout, and then began to clean up the dugout.

The two people still lived in the original dugout. The branches covering the dugout had collapsed, and the layer of soil and branches that had originally covered the dugout had all leaked into the dugout, so they had to clear them out first.

It was not a very hard job, and both of them were veterans. They first pulled out the branches, then went down and shoveled the soil with shovels and threw it up.

Li Long did not help. He went to find some dry branches and brought them over, and put them down where Lao Huang was building the stove. Then he rebuilt the stone stove that had been broken apart by someone.

It was a sunny day, so he found some hay, broke some dry branches he had picked up, and lit a fire in the stone stove.

When the fire started, Li Long found some short and thick wood and pressed it on the branches, and the fire suddenly became smaller. The flames licked the wood and soon ignited it.

Li Long took out a pot from the trunk of the jeep and placed it on the stone stove. He then took a bucket and fetched water from a nearby stream and poured it into the pot.

Once the water is boiled, Li Long won’t have to do the rest of the work.

"Xiaolong, go and do your own thing." Li Jianguo had already shoveled out the soil in the dugout. He was going to pick up some branches to make the "roof" of the dugout. Last year, they used fresh branches, but over the course of a month, the leaves would fall from time to time.

It was still early, so he planned to pick up some dry branches, lay them down densely, and then cover them with grass and soil, so that there wouldn't be so much trouble.

After hearing this, Li Long said:

"Okay, you guys get busy. I'll go do my work first. Come back when I'm done."

Li Long handed his double-barreled shotgun to Li Jianguo. Now that they were alone, they still had to have something handy to protect themselves. After all, if something came over at night, firing a shot would be enough to scare it.

Li Long drove the jeep away. Lu Yingming also finished shoveling the soil. He looked at the departing jeep and said enviously:
"Hey, it's really convenient to have a car. Back then, it took us a whole day to get to the mountains from the team. Now it only takes an hour, and we can make several trips a day!"

Li Jianguo smiled:
"He just had good timing and luck."

"That's not entirely true. Xiaolong used to look... well, just average. But in the last few years, he's really amazing. The opportunity is right before our eyes, and not everyone can seize it." Lu Yingming really thinks Li Long is amazing.

Right now, there are only him and Li Jianguo, so he is not afraid that saying this will make others think that he is currying favor with the Li family.

It's the truth.

"Things have changed in the past two years." Li Jianguo agreed with this, and then he changed the subject:
"Old Lu, we have to hurry up and finish this dugout before noon. Then we can clear the pit and cut the strips in the afternoon and try to weave one out in the evening."

They both brought dry food, red tofu, and pickles, and planned to make do with just lunch and dinner.

We are here to make money, not to enjoy ourselves.

"Okay." Lu Yingming thought so too, and the two of them sped up their actions.

When Li Long drove the jeep to Halimu's winter home, he found that his cows and horses were grazing in the distance, and the sheep were not let out and were in the pen.

The couple were busy shearing wool by the sheepfold.

Kazakhs have a tradition of weaving blankets and carpets. In the past, most of the blankets in their yurts were woven by themselves.

Blankets are made from wool, which is sheared, cleaned, twisted into thread, dyed, and woven into a variety of fabrics.

Li Long vaguely remembered that his elder sister-in-law Liang Yuemei could also knit. She knitted sweaters, hats, socks and wool vests.

Li Long drove the jeep to the entrance of the winter den, got out and started moving things downstairs.

Halimu put down the scissors, waved to him, and continued to work.

The sheep has been pinned down and half-sheared, so there is no way to put it down just like that.

Li Long brought down the things he had prepared for them and placed them at the door of the winter den, then went to the sheep pen.

"Are we going to move on after shearing the wool?" Li Long stood at the side, looking at himself and not knowing how to help, as he didn't know how to shear the wool.

"No, we have to wash the sheep first." Halimu said, "The people from the animal husbandry team will come over to collect the wool, and then we will drive the sheep over there to wash them, and then we will be ready to move to another pasture."

Li Long nodded and asked:

"I brought some things with me. When you wash the sheep, I'll ask everyone if they need anything."

"Okay, we must buy more batteries." Halimu said as he cut.

"I brought two hundred sections this time. Divide them among the families first, and I will bring some more next time." Li Long originally thought that one hundred sections were enough, but now that he thinks about it, there are nearly twenty families, and each family gets ten sections. Well, it's not much actually.

Batteries are generally prohibited in home radios, but this is different on summer ranches, where the radio may be on all day long.

"The herding team will also give us some supplies." Halimu said with a smile, "What we lack right now..."

"Shoes, rubber shoes should be needed, right?"

"Yes, a lot of it." Halimu immediately changed his words. You're kidding. The animal husbandry team can only give out some food, tea, etc. How can they give out rubber shoes? This thing is too practical in the summer pasture.

Of course, Li Long still remembered the medicine. He brought some this time and planned to bring more tomorrow.

There are a lot of miscellaneous items, and it is impossible for Li Long to think of them all at once. Fortunately, there is still time, so he just buys some as he thinks of them.

Since Halimu and his wife were both busy, Li Long decided not to disturb them. He said hello and went to the wooden house.

I dried the house yesterday and will continue today.

These days, it is sunny both inside and outside the mountains, except in the deep Tianshan Mountains in the south, where you can see clouds floating on the mountain tops, some gray and some white. It must be raining in some places.

After getting off the car, Li Long just took a look and hurried off to do his work.

First he set up the stove and after the fire was lit, Li Long went to hang out the bedding to dry again.

There was no stove in the small room, so Li Long opened the door and lifted the paper on the window to let in plenty of sunlight.

After all these were done, Li Long moved the remaining things in the jeep into the cabin.

He didn't plan to put food in the cabin until the dampness in the cabin had dissipated. He mainly put common items such as tea, sugar, salt, noodles and biscuits that could be stored for a while, as well as rubber shoes, gloves, matches, thin wire, bags and other things.

Don’t underestimate things like thin wire and matches. For herbalists who often go to the mountains, these are the most necessary items, but they are also the easiest to consume.

After unloading these things, Li Long went to see the net he had set up yesterday.

As he walked over, he saw mushrooms growing on the grass again - mushrooms were the fastest growing organisms he had ever seen. They were not there yesterday, but today they had grown to the size of a fist or even a head.

Amazing.

As for the bamboos that could grow several meters overnight that he had seen and heard about in videos and novels in his previous life, he had never seen them.

He has seen the growth process of bamboo's relative, reed, but it doesn't grow as fast as bamboo, so let it be.

When they reached the stream, Li Long stepped on the stones to lift up the tail of the net.

Many fish were frightened and jumped, trying to escape from the net.

In addition to the pike, there are several other small fish that Li Long is not very familiar with, and they look very beautiful.

Several small pike were already dead, so Li Long fished them out.

I weighed it and it was about two or three kilograms.

Not bad, you can stew it and eat it at noon.

He took some out and started to peel them in the stream. After peeling them, he found some rhubarb leaves nearby, picked up the peeled fish and walked back.

Halfway through the walk, I saw some fresh straw mushrooms and picked a few.

If you are eating by yourself at noon, you don’t need to make too much.

After returning to the wooden house, Li Long was not hungry yet. The water in the pot was boiling. He first washed the thermos that was originally placed here, then poured the water into it, and then covered the pot.

If you don’t want to cook for now, just clean up the area first.

After a winter, there was a lot of dirt, soil, and feces on the wooden floor in front of the cabin.

Li Long took a large broom from the shed and began to sweep slowly, avoiding raising dust. After cleaning all around and clearing out the toilet behind which was already overgrown with grass, Li Long breathed a sigh of relief.

I put down the broom, went to the spring to wash my hands, and then prepared to cook.

Since some people don't want to see cooking scenes, this clip will be omitted.

After dinner, Li Long sat outside against the house to bask in the sun for a while, and then continued to clean up the wooden house.

The wooden house can be lived in tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, but Li Long does not plan to live there at night. He plans to stay there during the day and drive back at night, so he doesn't want to leave too many things inside.

After all, a padlock cannot stop those who want to destroy it.

After what happened last year, Li Long didn't have high expectations for the moral bottom line of those herbalists in the mountains.

After all, not all herbalists are like Sun Jiaqiang.

I don’t know if Sun Jiaqiang will come here to collect herbs again this year.

This thought only flashed for a moment and then disappeared. There will be many passers-by in life, some of whom you can still meet, and some of whom may not see each other again for the rest of your life after separation.

After all, the world is so big.

After expressing his emotion, Li Long collected the hot beddings from drying in the sun and put them into the wooden house. Then he locked the door and went to where the net was placed.

He shelled all the pike, carried them back in a bucket he picked up from the jeep, put them in the trunk, and prepared to go back.

After returning, he planned to buy some medicine as soon as possible and send it to Halimu and others tomorrow.

The days are getting longer, and it is the slack season for farming, so the county is slowly becoming lively.

Gu Boyuan's agricultural supply store has been quite busy these days, and he has already received several shipments of goods.

In fact, his agricultural supply store has been busy since the snow melted in the spring. Fortunately, Mr. Gu still attaches great importance to life, so he is basically never late for meals.

Li Long bought some medicine and packed it, and also bought some batteries and put them in the trunk. When he returned to the yard, Sister Yang had already returned.

He gave the pike to Sister Yang and went back to play with the dog.

The training over the past two days made the little black dog a little afraid of Li Long. When he saw him coming, he became a little hesitant.

Li Long has something delicious in his hand, and he likes to eat it very much. But in order to eat it, he has to do some actions that are a bit difficult for him, which is quite sad.

When Gu Xiaoxia came back, she saw Li Long holding the dog and teaching it a lesson. The little black dog lowered its head and barked occasionally, and it was unclear whether it was out of grievance or resistance.

"Don't bother it anymore." Gu Xiaoxia looked at the puppy with some distress. Li Long let go of the dog with a wry smile.

The little black dog looked at Gu Xiaoxia and immediately ran over with its chubby legs flapping, as if it knew who had saved it.

During dinner in the evening, Li Long talked about the situation in the mountains.

"Your elder brother has to stay in the mountains for a month, right?" Gu Boyuan asked while eating, "That's not easy."

"To make money." Li Long said, "You have to be a little tired."

"I don't think you're tired." Gu Xiaoxia said.

"Then I'm different." Li Long smiled.

"It's different." Gu Boyuan nodded, "You're the only one who can make money this way."

Gu Boyuan actually made a lot of money every day. At the beginning of the reform and opening up, in some aspects, it was the most profitable. As long as you could get the relevant qualifications, you could make a lot of money in almost any field.

There are few competitors and it is a complete seller's market in the early stages of the industry. If the service is better, there will be no shortage of customers.

The next day, Li Long sent Gu Xiaoxia to work before going to the mountains.

He first went to Halimu's winter home. Halimu was driving the sheep out of the pen. These sheep had been completely sheared, and each one was very thin. Usually, they looked a little weird because they were lumpy and hairy.

Li Long moved the medicines and batteries to the front of the winter den, and Halimu's wife put them into the house.

After saying goodbye to Halimu, Li Long went to Xiaobaiyanggou.

Today, Xie Yundong, Xu Haijun and others are coming here to prepare to form a group, and Liang Wenyu will also bring people here, so he has to take a look.

However, what surprised Li Long was that when he came over, he only saw Lu Yingming, but not his elder brother Li Jianguo.

He also saw a wild boar placed next to the stove he had seen yesterday.

The wild boar had obviously been shot. It was dead and its stomach had been cut open. Its internal organs had been taken out and placed in a basin, but no further processing had been carried out.

Fortunately, it was still cool in the mountains at this time and not to the point of being smelly.

Li Long was a little surprised. He immediately asked Lu Yingming:
"Brother Lu, what's going on with this wild boar?"

"Last night... not really, it should be this morning." Lu Yingming was cleaning the wild boar's internal organs. "Around three or four o'clock, a large group of wild boars woke us up. They ran out of the mountains and ran north.

Your eldest brother said that you said that these wild boars must have gone out to find food and would come back in an hour or two, so he would wait with a sand gun. I didn't believe it at the time and went to sleep. After waiting for more than an hour, the wild boars came running again. Your eldest brother fired two shots and shot down one. It must have weighed 60 to 70 kilograms, enough for us to eat for a few days!"

Li Long really admired his elder brother's judgment and luck.

How could I encounter a wild boar coming down the mountain? Why haven't I had such luck in the past two years?
"What about my eldest brother?" Li Long asked again.

"Your brother was called away by Juan's uncle, and he asked you to give them some advice on which ditch to go to and how to build a cave."

Li Long didn't expect Liang Wenyu to come so soon. At this time, Xie Yundong and Xu Haijun had not arrived yet.

He then asked which ditch Liang Wenyu was in, and Lu Yingming said it was in Yushu Ditch.

Li Long knew this ditch. A tractor could drive in there, so a jeep would certainly be no problem, so he drove over there.

Liang Wenyu was digging a hole in the ground under the guidance of Li Jianguo.

The ditch on the Yushugou side is smaller than the Xiaobaiyanggou. Both sides are filled with various strange-looking elms. There are many branches from these elm trees that can be used, but because the branches do not grow straight, they cannot be used as carrying poles.

The poles need to be cut elsewhere.

The main purpose of digging a cave is to dig underground. The place Liang Wenyu and his team chose is far from the stream, about one kilometer away from Xiaobaiyanggou, which is not very far.

This is one of the few flat lands in the ditch, and the soil is sandy. Even if you dig down nearly one meter, you will not reach the Gobi layer, which is pretty good.

"We need to dig a slope here for the entrance and exit, otherwise it will be difficult to exit." Li Jianguo pointed out from time to time with a shovel while digging a hole in the ground with Liang Wenyu. "And when we dig down, the bottom can't be too narrow, otherwise it will be difficult to turn over."

When the jeep came over, Li Jianguo stopped explaining.

"Brother, that's awesome. We caught a wild boar in one night." Li Long got out of the car and said with a smile.

"Hey, I touched it!" There was a hint of pride on Li Jianguo's face.

After greeting Liang Wenyu, the young men all looked at Li Long. Liang Wenyu introduced them to each other and then asked them to dig holes in the ground quickly and try to get everything ready today to see if they could start working right away.

"Uncle Liang?" Li Long remembered Liang Wenyu said that he drove the tractor here and asked his father to drive it back.

"I've already left," Li Jianguo said. "I still have some chores to do at home. I have to go back and take care of them."

Seeing that they brought a lot of things, including food and daily necessities, Li Long didn't say anything else and just told Liang Wenyu that they could go there for lunch at noon today.

Li Jianguo also gave them some instructions on how to set up the stove - although they would eat in Xiaobaiyanggou, these people brought some dry food with them, so they still had to cook their own water and so on.

Then Li Jianguo went back to Xiaobaiyanggou with Li Long, and he still had to deal with the wild boar.

When they arrived at Xiaobaiyanggou, Li Long also joined the ranks of processing wild boars. After all, he had the most experience and was very good at skinning.

So when Xie Yundong and the others came over, they were all stunned.

How come Li Long and his team have already prepared the meat before they even arrived? This is a feast!
A wild boar weighing 60 to 70 kilograms can yield at least 50 to 60 kilograms of meat.

Old Huang was grinning so hard that he couldn't close his mouth.

A good cook cannot cook without rice. Now that he has this good stuff, it will be much easier for him to cook. (End of this chapter)